That Oo La La Inftifada Feeling...

That's what Stephen Plaut is saying at Arutz Sheva. It's one great big "I told you so"!

The suburbs of Paris are now more dangerous than Jenin, and the French are getting their comeuppance for decades of snootiness, for anti-American and anti-Israel agitprop, for decades of cowardice, and especially for the repulsive French love of old Jerry Lewis movies.

Paris is now being targeted by violent rioting hordes. For years, the French accused American racism of having produced the race riots in the US in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Los Angeles riots after the Rodney King business. And the French are sure that only Jewish cussedness and just plain Israeli evil lie behind the behavior of the Palestinian pogromchiki.

Plaut goes so far as to prepare a set of "peace proposals" to bring the Intifada to an end.

France has much other stolen territory to return. It took Corsica from Genoa, Nice and Savoy from Piedmont. As the successor state, Italy must get back all these lands. By similar token, territories grabbed from the Hapsburgs go back to Austria, including Franche-Comte, Artois and historic Burgundy. The Roussillon area (along the Pyrenees) must be returned to Spain, its rightful owner. And Normandy, Anjou, Aquitaine and Gascony must be returned to their rightful owners - the British royal family.

Not even this is enough for the sake of peace. Brittany and Languedoc must be granted autonomy at once, recognizing the Breton and Occitan liberation organizations as their legal rulers. This leaves the French government in control over the Ile de France (the area around Paris).

That, however, still does not solve the problem of the Holy City of Paris, sacred to artists, gourmets and adulterers. The Corsicans obviously have a historic claim to the Tomb of the Emperor Napoleon, their famed son, as well as the Invalides complex and beyond.

Droll as Plaut's proposals may seem to Israelis (and their sympathizers) tired of French politicians calling Jerusalem the capital of the Palestinian Authority, and lecturing them about returning the Golan to Syria so that the Syrians can go back to shelling the Galilee, in a way, he misses the point of these riots.

The Germans have given up on Alsace Lorraine, the British lost Calais during the reign of Mary I, and don't really want it back. However, France, like Israel has a large, disaffected minority who, if asked, would demand root-and-branch changes to the foundational structures of the State.

For the radicals in both minorities, this or that piece of land will not really cut the mustard. If the French want peace, perhaps they should introduce shari'ah law.